The
Amurian Plate (or
Amur Plate; also occasionally referred to as the
China Plate) is a minor
tectonic plate in the
northern and
eastern hemispheres. It covers
Manchuria, the
Korean Peninsula, Western
Japan, and
Primorsky Krai. Once thought to be a part of the
Eurasian Plate, the Amur Plate is now generally considered to be a separate plate moving southeast with respect to the Eurasian Plate. The Amurian Plate is named after the
Amur River, that forms the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the
Eurasian Plate, on the east by the
Okhotsk Plate, to the southeast by the
Philippine Sea Plate along the
Suruga Trough and the
Nankai Trough, and the
Okinawa Plate, and the
Yangtze Plate.